Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

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    1 year ago

    I feel like I’m not reading the same article as you are. Can you share an example of where they undermine their own argument? This seems like a pretty well researched and thought out article.

    They clearly state their interpretation of enshitification and it seems to me like a valid generalisation and to be applied correctly.

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      1 year ago

      That’s because OverDrive, a private corporation, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America. (I looked for exact current numbers, but turns out that would require the time and resources of a professional journalist.)

      you’re allowed to like it, but that doesn’t make it well-researched or even good. i like lots of crap too.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry if I upset you, I was just trying to understand your position better. Personally I don’t feel like this example undermines the whole argument, its an acknowledgment of a limitation of the writers perspective. It also looks to have been updated.

        “That’s because OverDrive, a private corporation, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America. (I looked for exact current numbers, but turns out that would require the time and resources of a professional journalist.1 Best I could do: as of December 2019, OverDrive controlled digital lending for “more than 95% of public libraries in the US and Canada”.2)”